I’ve wondered if David Ross can expect a similar fate.
Yeah, the Cubs were disappointing during the first half. But after their fire sale, and the club’s subsequent tanking, I wonder what kind of leeway they’ll give a first-year manager when the owners essentially sold the roster out from under him.
Wish I could award you SDMB Silver
Yanks have won 10 straight!
2.5 game lead in Wild Card and 4 behind Tampa in the AL East race. (Who is also leading the Home Field Advantage race).
As an Angels fan we have the beginnings of an all Sushi team…Tim Salmon, Mike Trout, Hank Conger.
I had no idea a conger was a fish.
An eel.
TIL I learned that a conger eel is indeed a fish.
Unfortunately, Mike Carp didn’t play for the Angels.
They should also get Kevin Bass out of retirement. Sadly, Bobby Sturgeon has been dead for years.
If we can extend the theme to marine animals that aren’t technically fish, I’d nominate two former pitcher with excellent nicknames:
11 straight for the Yanks but boy was that a nail biter last night. The 9th was insanely long and bases loaded with full counts.
Yanks extend Wild Card cushion to 4.5 games and remain 4 behind Tampa for best record in AL, tied for 2nd best.
I just wish Boone would let whoever does a good job in the 8th come back in the 9th. Chapman is just so unpredictable. Plus it’s hard to watch him, it looks like he’s hooked up to the same sweat machine that Robert Hays used in Airplane!
Damn Skippy, I was thinking the same thing last night.
15 innings and still no winner in LA/SD. Was 3-1 Dodgers in 15th, then Tatis hits 2-run homer. On to the 16th. (Yawns) 
Has a team ever wasted more great individual seasons than the Angels of the last ten years? How do you have a losing record with Shohei Ohtani on your team?
The Orioles finally won. They had the least noted 19-game losing streak you can possibly imagine, though at this point I guess people just expect that of them.
And back to my team; Robbie Ray now leads the AL in pitching WAR.
I don’t think that’s an illusion. He has been absolutely stellar. Whatever pitching coach Pete Walker has been working with him on, it’s been sensational; his career was in jeopardy with control issues when he come over from Arizona last year.
can the Mets get any more pathetic? 4 runs in the series against the Giants against the back end of the rotation.
What about next year? No upgrades in the free agent class in LF and 2B, but if they could get Castellanos in RF AND Arendo at 3B, could live with Dom/JD in left and McNeil at 2nd, batting 6th and 7th.
The current Nats are now officially the worst major league team I’ve ever seen play (and I grew up watching the Senators). They are especially inept at routine fielding plays, Carter Kieboom probably being the worst offender in that regard.
Yanks on longest win streak since 1961. Chapman improving, the tying run in the 9th only got so far as second base last night.
Last night in a game in Seattle, Royals starter Brad Keller left the game with one out in the bottom of the fifth with an apparent elbow injury. He had just given up a solo homer which increased the Mariner lead to 2-0. Joel Payamps came in from the bullpen and finished the inning, but not before he allowed 3 hits, including a 2-run homer, which made the score 4-0 after five.
The Royals then scored five in the top of the sixth to take a 5-4 lead; they added another run in the seventh and the final score was 6-4, KC.
Richard Lovelady came in to pitch a scoreless sixth inning after the Royals took the lead. Ervin Santana pitched the seventh and eighth innings, also allowing no runs. Scott Barlow pitched a perfect ninth for the save.
Santana was awarded the win, even though Payamps was the pitcher of record when KC took the lead for good. And Lovelady pitched before Santana. But the official scorer has discretion in a case like this, although it’s not used very often. From mlb:
There is also a rarely used clause where an official scorer can deem a relief pitcher’s appearance “brief and ineffective.” (For example, if a reliever relinquished a one-run lead by allowing three runs, but was still in line for a win after his team scored four runs in the following inning – that may qualify.) If that’s the case, the scorer can award the win to a pitcher who followed that “brief and ineffective” pitcher. Which relief pitcher earns the win specifically is also up to the judgment of the official scorer.
It ended in 16, which is by far the longest game of the auto-runner era. (Previous record was 13.) The really amazing thing is that they played five scoreless extra innings from the 10th through the 14th. To go through ten consecutive auto-runner half-innings with no score, that is some stud relief pitching.